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Welcome to our Cajun Country Louisiana Swamp Tours 337-230-4068 in Lake Martin Louisiana near Breaux Bridge Louisiana . Our Cajun Country Swamp Tours begins 5 miles from Interstate 10 (I-10) Exit 109 east of Lafayette & West of Baton Rouge on the banks of historic Bayou Teche in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. From Lake Martin your personalized Eco Tour Louisiana swamp tour goes through a beautiful surreal Louisiana cypress swamp that is sure to charm and excite your imagination. The Cypress Island/Lake Martin Louisiana Cajun Country Swamp area is famous for it’s impressive scenic beauty and wildlife. Alligators, egrets, herons, bayous, ancient cypress trees covered with Spanish moss and more of what you envision a Louisiana Cajun Country style Eco swamp tours are waiting for you. The boat tour is conducted by an open Cajun Boat. This boat is small enough to get us into the heart of cypress swamps yet large enough to accommodate 17 large adults easily, and is powered by an environmentally friendly and very quiet 4-stroke outboard motor. Here in Acadiana we operate Louisiana swamp eco tours all year round by appointment. Call Bryan Champagne Chief Guide (337) 230-4068
Champagne's Swamp Tours for you Cajun Country Swamp Tours near Lafayette , Baton Rouge and Breaux Bridge, NEW IBERIA, ST. MARTINVILLE St. Martin Parish. FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO www.louisianaswamptours.net WWW.LOUISIANACAJUNCOUNTRYSWAMPTOURS.COM www.cajuncountryswamptours.net |
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The Louisiana Cajun Country Style Eco swamp tour site is Cypress Island/Lake Martin Swamp, a backwater swampy area cut off from the main Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp by a long, wide, low ridge of land called the Teche Ridge. Named for the bayou that occupies the old Mississippi River bed today the Teche Ridge was formed over three thousand years ago by the Mississippi River’s seasonal flooding and deposition of sediments from an area comprising thirty-two of today’s United States. This ridge of land is where many Acadians came to start their new lives after cruelly being exiled from their new homeland, Acadia, by the British in 1755 Once the Mississippi River changed course, around three thousand years ago, sediments that were gradually filling in the Cypress Island Louisiana /Lake MartinLouisiana Swamp largely disappeared, leaving this swamp in a state of “suspended animation” awaiting the return of the Mississippi River and its dynamic land building forces. Little had changed until the early 1900’s when a canal was dug through the Louisiana swamp to connect the Bayou Teche to the Vermillion River just north of Lake Martin. The main reason for this canal was to help stop saltwater intrusion on the lower Vermillion River, which is actually an estuary, allowing more land to be utilized for agriculture. In 1950 the State of Louisiana and land owners around Lake Martin Swamp entered into a lease agreement that allowed the state to build and keep up a levee encircling Lake Martin swamp to maintain a deeper constant water depth for the purpose of creating a public hunting and fishing preserve. This levee stopped the seasonal water fluctuations that are characteristic of backwater Louisiana swamps turning a large portion of this swampy lake Martin wetland area into an impoundment. As an added bonus the impoundment created an environment very attractive to wading birds which now utilize the area for feeding, roosting and rookery purposes. |
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